Maxim Mfg. Co. v. Imperial Mach. Co.

PAGE, Circuit Judge.

In a suit by plaintiffs appellees, herein called plaintiffs, the court held that claims 1, 2, 3, and 4 of patent No. 809,582, and claim 1 of patent No. 942,932, were valid and infringed by defendant appellant, herein called defendant.1

*80The defenses are noninfringement, equitable estoppel, laches, and invalidity. Eighty-seven patents are urged as representing anticipation in the prior art. Defendant also sets up a counterclaim, alleging unfair competition. The witnesses were before the court, and several potato-peeling tests, on behalf of defendant, were made in the presence…